Jean Baptiste Kingery seems to be yet another thug that took advantage of the Obama Administration's criminal stimulus package for the southwest, building grenades and IEDs for the Sinaloa cartel.

So what did the Department of Justice do when they caught him. They released him free as a bird within hours.

Federal authorities are probing why the U.S. in 2010 let go an Arizona man accused of supplying grenades to a Mexican drug cartel, a case that played a role in the ouster last week of the nation's top firearms regulator and the U.S. attorney in Phoenix. U.S. officials said missteps in the case, which hasn't been previously disclosed, are being investigated by the Justice Department and Congress. Federal agents in 2009-10 at the Phoenix office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives led the case against the suspect, who they believed was dealing grenades to cartels in Mexico. The case was overseen by prosecutors in the Arizona U.S. attorney's office, the U.S. officials said.

The Arizona U.S. attorney's office and the Phoenix ATF office are the Justice Department units behind another botched operation, called Fast and Furious, which has been the subject of intense congressional interest this year. The Fast and Furious program allowed suspected smugglers to buy about 2,000 firearms, some of which later turned up at drug-related crime scenes in Mexico and the U.S. Apparently the Obama Administration didn't think they were causing enough damage just running guns to Mexico, and so they released a bomb-builder andagainst the pleading of ATF officialsso that he could flee to Mexico and resume building explosives.

When Mexican police finally caught up to Kingery they found enough material to construct 500 hand grenades, the iconic Shepard Fairey Obama "Hope" poster thumb-tacked to the plaster wall over his workbench.

You know there's a deception when they act all "hang-dog" with that word. That's because they're trying to take the fall for JUST botching something, when in fact the real objective was some really REALLY criminal behavior.

To export weapons you have to do so in accordance with the ITAR, and that means it's some seriously interAgency activity with lots of meetings, papers signed, and EUC's (end-user certifications).

If you don't do that, then it's a crime, even for one shipment of weapons, or even just one --it's a felony.

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